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How Thin is the Water?

January 22, 2019
By Ayoungpoet GOLD, Lexington, Kentucky
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Let it never be said

That words are only as sharp

As their wielder.

Let it never be told

When we’re speaking of stones,

That it is density that measures

How deep they go.

Really, the question is

How thin is the water?

© Caitlin E., Sammamish, WA

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